Let's have an Eda thread. I had some questions about her backstory because she's such a spook.
So Eda is CIA (inb4 4u) and she traffics guns in Roanupur, but is it ever implied she was put there as a punishment? Roanapur seems like kind of a shit gig and she doesn't seem happy to be there.
Also what the fuck does Eda do in her free time except drink?
I think it's completely voluntary. Just because she's serious at times doesn't mean she doesn't like hanging out there.
It is kind of a shit gig, though. Chang and Fryface are mid-level and there's not much to do, apparently.
I don't have any Eda pictures, though.
Hang out at the church and contemplate shooting herself.
Make poor life choices, I'm willing to bet.
Is she a big girl?
Military intel totally dress like this IRL, and the people who work with them find it hilarious
What always struck me about Roanapur is it really seems like the best of the best congregate there, but nothing they do really matters in the end. It's almost like people like Meido or Balalaika or Revy who are pretty much the best at what they do kind of go there to burn out their flame.
Is there some narrative symbolism there? Is TexMex TRULY THE MASTER or did he just stumble into a great narrative in between the violence?
Would Eda be endgame or tied into New York or Dutch's story?
She's got the biggest dick in Roanapur, but the CIA doesn't seem like they really want to flex all that much.
>did he just stumble into a great narrative in between the violence?
Well, I'm an asshole that maintains that Japan has some interesting underlying themes, like a criticism of the noble Yakuza stereotype and a condemnation of Japanese honor culture.
But also that might just be Hiroe stealing that from other people.
It's implied that Dutch lied about his Vietnam service by the Special Forces guys, so I'm betting her arc will conclude with Dutch's. Dutch strikes me as extremely intelligent at managing assets, and that's exactly what, say, a CIA case officer does. I can see her and his arcs intertwining.
Non-SF guys trying to look plainclothes is some of the funniest shit I have ever seen in my entire life. Especially the newby Military Police guys.
>"GREETINGS FELLOW E4 WANNA STEAL SOME NODS FROM THE ARMORY???"
Like fuck off Chief, we know it's you.
>Eda kicks your door down and tells you to DELEET your last post
What do you do Sup Forums?
More and more I'm convinced that there isn't an endgame for BL. Which is a shame, because I would sort of like to see the series given a proper ending.
Meanwhile actual SF is like:
>Did I wander into a bodybuilder competition?
Except for the Rangers, who are wiry old guys.
What sort of ending would you want? I think I'd love something realistically tragic; it could elevate the tone and wrap everything up nicely.
So you're saying SF groups are full of...big guys?
It would elevate BL from Tarantino perfect use of ultra-violence to real artsy if they did a nicely done tragic ending. Something like Revy and Dutch getting smoked and Rock kind of having to pick up the pieces and put Lagoon Company back together and move forward in life.
Especially if it's a plan of Rock's that goes wrong, and he pays that ultimate consequence for it. He'd be just another tragic story in Roanupur.
I mean, wishful thinking? Happy.
But I really just want the threads closed. I want all of it to actual mean something.
Your not CIA are you, your NSI aren't you?
How else would you know what I posted?
>Eda's first appearance in casual clothes
I literally stopped the video from there and busted a nut
Fuck you OP
My ex gf's name is Eda, and I trying to forget her. Thanks for reminding me her you fags.
I'm a sucker for happy endings, I'd like to see Revy get a chance at that normal life she craves so much and for Rock not to fall into darkness.
Tragic wise I could see any of the other characters dying/going to jail. It's actually interesting, during the 1995-1998 timeframe Thailand was undergoing a huge crackdown on drug smuggling. By the end of the 90s the prison population had doubled, and there was virtually no trafficking left within the country. It'd make an interesting ending to the series.
You can't escape your waifu user.
>I made the title "EDA!"
sorry fampai, lagoonpost with us to feel better
That'd be a cool tragic ending, where for all their slickness and wheeling-dealing all the drug shit and illegal nonsense just kind of comes to an end. Hotel Moscow, Chang, and Lagoon Company just having to leave town and scrounge around might actually be sadder than a big death. The whole "dying with a whimper instead of a bang" deal.
I'm gonna steal your video games you lazy fuck
Sucks.
Now why would anyone escape their waifu?
Hiroe is underrated as an artist. He has some really dynamic stuff that reminds me of mediocre Samura
The Japan outfit is so insanely top-tier that it fucking hurts.
>Revy and Dutch getting smoked and Rock kind of having to pick up the pieces and put Lagoon Company back together and move forward in life.
I was thinking:
Rock's reach exceeds his grasp. He crosses Balalaika, who is forced to end him, though uncharacteristic of her, she does so mercifully quick. Nonetheless, this smashes Revy's already broken pieces as she's lost her perhaps only perceived means of salvation (and romantic interest?), and she confronts Balalaika, inevitably dying. Benny bugs out, and Dutch works to build a new BL company.
A happy ending could be really nice too, though. Especially if Rock and Revy kith.
Some men just want to watch the world and their waifu burn. And it's sickening and heretical.
Some people like having their waifu already burned.
Pure Russian crime lord cinnamon roll doesn't count.
The Japan-Arc might be Hiroe's masterpiece at this point.
>implying my waifu would ever let me escape
Bacon isn't good for you, user
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>Last thread
What.
"Rock Sticks His Nose In Someone Else's Business"
>It's Always Sunny in Roanupur theme begins to play
I've always wanted a sort of "life goes on" moment. The world forgets Rouanpur just as easily as it ignored it in the past. A few people die in the climax, but no one really gets punished for anything.
And then Rock just sits there and wonders if any of it mattered, all his pain and sacrifices. Maybe an uber happy ending would be Revy telling him it did, that he saved her and that made it all worth it. But I think it should be left with a sort of disquiet instead, like the ending to the Roberta arc. They just sit there on the beach and look out over the sea, silently.
Cue the outro
>He wouldn't want to passionately lick her scars.
Hey its you again, still screwed I see.
NEVER
EVER
Didn't Revy basically force him too?
nooo
I want a good ending, even for those that didn't make it.
Not really. He's the one who couldn't resist another cause.
What a maroon.
My man!
>implying I would ever want to escape
This lewd maid does things to me I can't even begin to explain. Also she's a maid and pretty adorable in domestic life so aside from the once-a-decade murder-spree she'll probably be an excellent mother.
reminder that Garcia regularly engages in threesomes with fabiola and roberta
Deleet this, meido is for me only
Roberta may do it for you but Eda, oh god the legs the breasts the nun get up mmhh she's perfect for me!
I would watch the hell out of it
>Dutch: She would never say "no", because of the implication.
>Benny: Bird law in the country is not governed by reason!
>Revy: I will eat your babies!
>Rock: Oh, get a job? Just get a job? Why don't I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on little jobbies?!”
I want to see Revy trying to eat Eda after loosing RUM HAAAM! I'M SORRY RUM HAM!
>Benny, Jade and Rock make a shitload of money on a dick-towel counterfeiting scam
>Piss all the money away on a used cigarette-boat that Chang used to use for drug smuggling
>Revy drunkenly dances on the boat while Dutch plays some kind of classical music on the absurdly decked out stereo
>that chapter where Revy tore her way out of Balalaika's couch.
> Ass naked and sweaty.
I'd lick the fuck out of Sawyer's scars.
N-NANI???
Canon.
I want to see an episode of "Rock work"
>Rock:You guys used Chang’s credit card, you bought a bunch of airline miles. Used those airline miles to purchase 400 steaks, knowing that this delivery company delivered all variety of animal products. You plan was to contaminate the steaks with chicken feathers by rubbing live chickens all over them. Then you were gonna repackage the steaks. At which point you were gonna return the contaminated steaks for actual cash, taking advantage of a loophole in the current airline mile system. Correct?
Rock: But what you didn’t plan on was a hungry delivery guy who’d driven all the way here from Ohio, or that Benny’s oversized fingers could have accidentally pressed zero again when she ordered the steaks online—I’m assuming you did the typing, Benny, yes?
>Benny: Goddammit.
>Revy: Benny, you bitch.
Rock: But none of this matters to me. Because today is inspection day. A day that I pride myself on. A day that I’ve never failed on and I don’t plan on failing now. So listen to me and listen close like you’ve never done before—we are going to pull this thing off, so help…me…God.
Gross
The one with Dutch and Balalaika ACTUALLY IS canon.
>Balaika with Spetsnaz facepaint and a recorder in the basement playing F-sharp for the smoke detector
>Revy sweating and going alright alright alright at the bar like a retard
>Dutch and Balalaika
The one with Aza is Rock/Fryface
Is there a Dutch/BaconBreath one that I don't know about?
>Is there some narrative symbolism there?
Well, the entire idea of Black Lagoon is taking several popular action film characters and making them face off against each other.
Roanapur is just a stage for them to act.
Hiro steals the characters not the narratives.
That's way different.
I've never seen because I'm not into BBC cuck porn LIKE SOME PEOPLE HERE but I've seen it referenced a bunch of times. It's not even really a "crackship" since Dutch and Balalaika seem to have some kind of off-screen history.
Balalaika is for Boris only though.
Rock is a major player in Roanapur, Benny and Dutch are dead and at one of the jobs he gives out, his men take a young Japanese salaryman hostage.
He is, like Rock abandoned by his company, but he decides to go back home, unlike Rock.
So, I just found out that Volume 10 sold like 200k copies.
After like a 4 year hiatus.
No wonder Hiroe is lazy, motherfucker only needs to produce twice a goddamn decade to stay comfy.
Wanna start a GoFundMe page to get the Yakuza to go beat him up?
Shit, send me. I'm cheaper.
I'll double my value and kick Sonoda in the nuts while I'm there.
Looking back at the other thread, I feel better about not being able to smother it with cars.
That level of autism far exceeds what I'm capable of emulating.
>Sup Forums world tour beating up Manga artists
>Sonoda and TexMex catch a mild but calculated beating
>all Sword Art Online directors and producers murdered
Can we pay THE MASTER ANNO a visit as well to see if 1+3 is gonna be EoE tier or a major meme?
Forgot picture
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I'll explain the deep christian imagery behind a baseball bat.
There's nothing gross about a bit of chocolate on vanilla action.
If Rei were to ever finish the story, how would Rock keikaku Feng out of her dilemma?
But Revy is a gook user, wouldn't it be chocolate on...I don't know cheese or something? What's a yellow dessert?
He isn't. She's going to die, and it will break him.
Caramel?
Vanilla caramel?
Banana.
Butterscotch.
what else can/do you do in a small coastal fishing town.
Good thing Revy will be there to smooch him back to full health.
inb4 reverse NTR where Eda cucks Revy because Rock becomes a Spider-Man 3 level edgelord
I think she would probably kill Eda for that.
>More and more I'm convinced that there isn't an endgame for BL. Which is a shame, because I would sort of like to see the series given a proper ending
An ending definitely wouldn't be bad even though Hiroe stated it can go on and on. It feels like it can too, just the creator doesn't have the energy to keep writing the shit and yet something like DragonBall is a fuckin Necro-Lich by this point.
I'd always imagine him building up towards an ending where Rock collapses this frail illusion all the head honchos of the city have by summoning the army to clean up Roanapur. Just one big ultimate fuck you to everyone, maybe except Revy whom he might be in conflict with at this point, dangerously so.
This would be pretty great. It has a nice symmetry.
Chocolate cheesecake. Revy's almost at that age isn't she?
>tfw I always dressed like that and now people make cia jokes at me
Imagine having Eda as your wife and you start cheating on another girl
This is your life now
>I'm sorry I cheated on you with Sawyer, but I love her
>I don't even know how we got married, or why
>In fact, I don't even remember it happening
>Did you drug me
Gets laid. Constantly.
>Revy's almost at that age isn't she?
Who knows. You could argue for pretty much any age from late teens to mid thirties, but most people seem to go with late 20s. Hiroe doesn't even keep track. He says the series starts in 1995, but then he writes that Rock was born in 1976 which would make him 19 (in one panel of the Roberta arc he even implies the series takes place in 1991, which makes Rock 15).
Procurement here, it is extremely unusual to for us to be sent on trips before our mid forties anyway. Even the CEO's son didn't start get start getting sent out before his mid thirties.
I really want a happy ending for these two, they deserve each other.
Shenhua can handle herself
Shenhua is tops
'95 makes more sense due the music he picked in the first few chapters. Shooter by Rednex was released in 95.
Yeah, but the novels (which are canon) have Revy singing a RATM song from 99.
Honestly, my favorite Hiroe design. Dem legs mang
>but the novels (which are canon)
Wasn't Hiroe selective about that, given that Urobotchi wrote them?
>which are canon
ish.
There are a few inconsistencies.
Shen is so underrated. Why does that wizard dork get to plow her AND sawyer?
>implying anyone but me plows Sawyer
unf
He's a loser virgin. Why do you think he's called the Wizard?
>so much of a wizard he gets to live with two turbobabes
I WISH I COULD GO BACK AND TIME AND GET MY VIRGINITY BACK SO I COULD DO THE SAME
I wouldn't exactly call Sawyer a "turbobabe". She's cute, but very much non-sexual. I doubt she has any interest in sex at all.
If she was a president she'd be Baberaham Lincoln.
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